Genus Halecium Oken, 1815

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halecium Oken, L. 1815. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil, Zoologie. Erste Abteilung. Jena : Schmid pp. i-xxviii, 1-842. [1815: pp. 1-841, Register; 1816: Atlas, I-IV, pls I-XVII].

  Type species:

   Sertularia halecium Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Naumov, D.V. 1960. Gidroidi i gidromedusy morskikh, solonovatovodnykh i presnovodnykh basseinov SSSR. [In Russian]. [English translation by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1969, cat. no. 5108, as "Hydroids and Hydromedusae of the Marine, Brackish and Freshwater Basins of the USSR". Opredeleteli po Faune SSSR, Izdavaemye Zoologicheskim Institutom Akademii Nauk SSSR 70: 1-626, pls 1-30.

Introduction

Watson (1973) mentioned two undescribed species, Halecium sp. 1 and sp. 2.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

General References

Watson, J.E. 1973. Hydroids. Pearson Island Expedition, 1969-9. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 153-200 [167]

History of changes